I-95 Wall Would Open Highway To Trouble

August 23, 1987|By ALAN CHERRY, Staff Writer

Sheri Cato reminds me of that faint Jiminey Cricket-like voice that tickles the back of the brain when life is about to lead one astray.

She attended with 150 other people in Deerfield Beach a meeting concerning a 10- to 20-foot wall on Interstate 95. The wall would protect neighbors from the clutter and clatter created by a widened superhighway.

Flamingos could be etched on one side, proposed one planner. Or perhaps a pretty pastel plaster?

``You`re just asking for trouble,`` Cato politely warned.

Too easy a target for graffiti artists, she explained.

Cato`s right, but remind people a few more times that the wall would cost about a million bucks a mile and then you`re really asking for trouble.

IT`S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS

There are still a few Good Joes (or Josephines) out there.

On Monday, someone stole four prize-winning ming aurelia trees from the yard of Kay Bates, who lives in unincorporated Broward County near Pompano Beach. One grand-daddy aurelia taken was worth $2,500.

It`s enough to leave a person downhearted and disgusted, said one woman from Lauderdale Lakes who called but asked not to be named.

``I know how it feels to have things stolen,`` she sympathized, offering to give Bates a couple of ming aurelias from her Lauderdale Lakes patio.

``She was a little sweetheart,`` Bates said, after talking to the woman.

Bates declined the gift, but said it was the offer that helps to cushion the blow of the loss.

ADVICE WORTH BITING AT

Here`s a bit of advice about mosquitoes any Floridian ought to be itching to find out.

It comes from a guy who ought to know -- professional fisherman Lyle Thomas, who spends his time out in the land of the larva, at Loxahatchee.

``Don`t swat!`` Thomas said. ``Gently blow them off.``

A gentle brush of the hand would accomplish the same, he said. But one good, murderous swat and the rest of the mosquitoes in the swamp will smell blood and think it`s lunchtime. Perfumes and colognes also attract the needle-nosed critters, he said.

DAD IS ONLY ONE THING HE`LL MISS

The pending departure of Andrew Maurodis as the Deerfield Beach city attorney will break up one of the few father-and-son teams in Broward County. Andrew`s father, Steve Maurodis, is the head of the city`s Solid Waste Department.

Andrew, the city attorney for the past seven years, has accepted a job to work for the county attorney.

``He sees me every day,`` Andrew said. ``I`ll certainly miss that.``

AN OFFICE IS ANOTHER

One thing Andrew Maurodis won`t miss is his old office at City Hall.

The attorney was supposed to get a fancy new office as part of the recent renovation at City Hall, but delays in finishing the new digs have kept Maurodis in his cramped headquarters.

Legal files are literally stacked on the floor outside his office.

But guess what? About the time he will be leaving Deerfield Beach, the new city attorney`s office will be finished.

``I will have the pleasure of moving everything,`` Andrew said, ``just as my successor walks in for the first time to use the desk.``